Pounds and ounces? They’re pretty much consigned to a newborn’s first bounces. But acres remain the imperial system’s final holdout, five decades after Australia switched to the metric system. Charles ...

Most North Dakotans will remember the record spike in the price of wheat in 2008 and the accompanying world food shortage. Spring wheat futures that year pushed over $20 per bushel (it's less than a ...

Indonesia has identified 2.3 million hectares (5.7 million acres) of protected forest that could be converted into “food and energy estates,” which could result in the country’s largest-ever ...